I love the neurovirus idea in it. It starts out as libertarianism.jpg but that quickly becomes a weird mix of linguistics, neuroscience, and history. It’s one of those sci-fi books that I come back to every year or two because of how damn interesting it is.

It’s a fantastic fucking book, one of my all-time favorites in this life. It’s wild as fuck and absolutely packed with mind-bending shit, but still manages to feel real and grounded. Feels like a mixture of Hitchhiker’s Guide, Shadowrun and Snatch, with characters getting wrapped up in each other’s schemes against the backdrop of a balkanized hypercapitalist hellscape, where information is king and there truly is no society.

I am leaving out so, so much.

I liked it. I haven’t read that PKD book but you’d probably find Snow Crash more engaging, considering the pace of his other writing i’ve read.